LRH: Order in Our Giving - 10

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Welcome to Logos Rima R with God's servant, Rev.

Dr.

Joseph Baalbein, Head Pastor of Harvest Chapel International Kumasi. And now,

to today's message.

Let's take our confession from Joshua 1 verse 8. This

Joshua 1:8

book of the Lord shall not depart out of my mouth.

that I shall meditate in it day and night, that

I may observe to do according to all that is

written in it. For then I will make my way prosperous,

and then I will have good success. Amen. Why don't

you take your seats in this presence as we look

into the Word of God. And so we are journeying

on how best we can bring all that into our

life of giving. Hallelujah. Amen. And our text, our anchor

scripture for the month is taken from Matthew 6, verse 24.

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate

the one and love the other, or you will be

devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot

serve both God and money. Hallelujah. And remember, we have

already made that point that this was one of the

truths that Jesus spoke or taught his disciples during the

Sermon on the Mount. And as we keep on saying,

the Sermon on the Mount has been touted by theologians,

as Bible scholars, as, if you like, a time where

Jesus sets out clearly the ethics, the values, the expected

behaviors of God for kingdom citizens. Amen. And this comes

from our master, our founder, hallelujah, our creator and our God.

And so there are words or teachings that we ought

to place a lot of premium on it. Amen. And

sometimes we say, why can't we do the two together?

Why can't we serve God and mammon? I mean, on

our own, we can argue that it is possible. And

most often that has been a very, very subtle trap

by the devil. If God says it cannot be done,

then you and I have no business saying it can't

be done. No matter how ingenious we plan to be,

it's not going to be possible. El Jesus wouldn't have

given a very emphatic statement that you cannot serve both

God and mammon. And so sometimes in our eagerness to

prove him wrong, that I can do both. We pierce

ourselves with a lot of other things. And before we realize,

we have abandoned the faith. It's sad, you know. I mean,

maybe from where God has positioned me over the years,

I've seen a lot of young men come to faith

in Christ. I've seen them graduate from school. I've seen them,

you know, giving places of honor, prominence in industry and

all that. And sad to say too, I've seen a

lot of them so soon after they have been put

in these positions of honor, trust, and then wealth, they

abandon the faith and now fixate and put all their

energy and effort on the pursuit of money for each food.

It would have been comforting and exciting to see that

it's not just that they are pursuing money, but they

are also pursuing God. But sooner than later, you find

out that they abandon the pursuit of God and then,

you know, fixate their minds on the pursuit of money.

And I believe that Jesus' warning is telling because he knows,

you know, immediately we fixate our mind on the pursuit

of money. The siblings of the pursuit of money, they

come in. And so before we realize, we begin to

pursue fame. We begin to pursue power, influence. We go

in for the girls, for the boys. We go in

for all the other things that literally chokes out the

life of God in us. So I know, I believe

that Jesus as God, he knows what he's saying. And

if I were you, I would just take him on

the faith value of the word. And as we know,

he has said that, seek first the kingdom of God

and its righteousness and all these other things, including the wealth,

they will be added to you. So once again, he

tells us that God is not anti-money or anti-wealth. It's

just a matter of the priorities, what we give our time,

energies to pursue. And that is the warning that God

I believe he's trying to tell us throughout the month.

As we said, we bring in order to our giving. Hallelujah. Amen.

He says when we seek him, we would be able

to ultimately find him and the world. Because we look

at it from the story of the Bible in Genesis.

We saw it. Moses goes out to tell us clearly

and vertically who created the world. Hallelujah. And it was God.

And when God created the world, guess what? He entrusted

it into the hands of man, our fair spirit. Hallelujah. Amen.

So God is not anti-money or anti-wealth creation, but he

has a more superior agenda for us. Hallelujah. Amen. Money

has done a lot of good things. Hallelujah. Amen. We always...

That's sometimes that when you embark on the pursuit of

money to the exclusion of God, then we begin to

make the very, very sound logical arguments. We know what

the money can do. It's giving us all these sleek

mobile phones and gadgets and luxury homes. How many of

us would want to have our homes in the rich

quarters of this country? I see a lot of hands up. Hallelujah.

And not go to You know what I mean? So

money can do a lot of things. We all admire

the big, clean cities with all the skyscrapers, the big roads,

the fast cars, the fast trains, the holiday resorts, and

all those places that people go for their vacations. And

sometimes we are tickled by it. We yearn to be

a part of all those places. You know, fun times

and excitements. Hallelujah. But we know that God doesn't want

us to give money, the credit for these things. Hallelujah. Amen.

And he doesn't want us to pursue these interests to

excluding him. Hallelujah. All the people, as I said, the

people who have given their vote for the spirit of

Mammon and continue to root and cheer for him. And

sometimes we look at them and we think that they

are cool. And they are contented. But it's a lie. Hallelujah. Amen.

We see them, you know, consulting with presidents and the

movers and shakers of industry. And sometimes we think that

that is their life. And we are tempted to side

with them until we come to the word. Hallelujah. And

that is why the word of God is so, so,

so key and so important. Hallelujah. But as we have said,

after we get born again, because these are all the

mindsets that we grew up with. Soon as we get

born again, there's a need for a mind shift, a

transformation of our minds, the values. Hallelujah. The principles, the

things that we cherish and hold dear to our hearts

as worthy of being pursued. And you can't do that

without reading the word. Hallelujah. You can't do that. You

can't have that necessary Mind change and shift in focus

and value systems and principles if you are just there. Hallelujah.

And that's also another tragedy in the kingdom of God.

When you get born again, God will put you to school.

You have to go to school. And you have to

make premium effort or maximum effort to read your word. Hallelujah.

So we said, let's go to Deuteronomy chapter 8. We

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

said that that is what, maybe we'll just talk about that.

Verse 1 today, Deuteronomy chapter 8. We said that on

Deuteronomy 8 · chapter mention

the path we towards divine wealth, on the pathway towards

divine wealth. Hallelujah. And then in verse 1, let's listen.

It says that the whole, I'm using the ESV, it

says the whole commandment that I command you today, you

shall be careful to do that you may live and

multiply and go in and possess the land that the

Lord swore to give to your fathers. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Five

important points there that I just want us to look at.

Number one, the whole commandment. Moses says the whole commandment,

not some of it. Number two, be careful to do it.

Be careful to do it. The stress is on the

carefulness to do it. Number three, now he's talking about

the rewards. The profit that will come, that you may

live and multiply.

Live.

And multiply. And you are asking yourself as a believer,

are you living and are you multiplying? Or you are

dead and decreasing to live and to multiply. And then

number five talks about going in and possess the land.

Possess means that you go occupy and take by force.

The blessings that God has here marked for us as

we look at the life of Israel. When Moses was saying,

You go in and possess the land. It was always

about going in and taking the land of Canaan by

military might and force. Hallelujah. By military might and force.

And it is the same thing in the Christian life.

You see, immediately you begin to chase after the spirit

of Mammon when God has not set you on that pathway.

Then all of a sudden you begin to find yourself

that you are disarmed. of all the spiritual, if you like,

arsenals that you need to be able to wage successful

spiritual warfare. So immediately you turn your attention to the

exclusion of God. And when you are losing God, we

always see it. Theologians have said it over the ages.

And sometimes in casual conversations with people as a pastor,

it always comes down to it. How is your quiet time?

These days I can't do it all. Then immediately you

know that you're on slippery pathways because you'll be disarmed

and you'll be captured as a prisoner of war. And

you will not be able to fight the way you

should fight. Hallelujah. The blessings of God, we have to

contend for it.

Why?

Because of the exchange that took place in the Garden

of Eden. Now it's in the hands of Satan. That

is what he did. He looked Jesus in the eyes

and told him. He said the Bible says that in

Matthew 4, After the 40-day fast, he took him to

a mountaintop and he said, look at all the wealth,

the riches of this. Just come, bow down, and I'm

going to give it to you. Hallelujah. Amen. So in

a sense, like Bible scholars will tell us, even though

when God created Adam, he entrusted the stewardship of the

wealth of this world in Adam's hand, there was an

exchange in the Garden of Eden. And now it is

in Satan's hand. And he says, you want the wealth?

You come and do my bidding. And number one at

the top of his list to his bidding, forget about God. Amen.

The last thing Satan wants us to see us doing

is worshiping God, bringing time, talent, and treasure, and laying

it down at the altars of God. Instead of pursuing other,

like you say, other things that will bring fun into

our lives, we are pursuing God. We are fasting. We

are praying. We are going to church. We are clapping.

We are singing. We are praising him. Satan doesn't like

any of that. Hallelujah. Amen. So that would be, go

in and possess the land. And the last one that

I like so much, he says that, The Lord has

sworn to give to your father. The Lord swore to

give to your father. There is an oath. Oh, my God.

And when God swears, even his word alone, he cannot. Hallelujah.

The word alone, he won't go back on it. How

much more adding an oath to it? Hallelujah. So let's

look at it briefly, these five points. So the whole commandment,

and once again, like we always say, the logos. and

the reamer of God's word. Hallelujah. First things first, order first,

the logos first. And in the logos, we are talking

about the comprehension of the word of God. Whatever language

it is in, whether in Chi, in Dagbani, in Hausa,

in Ga, in English, in Latin, all that you need

to do is that look for a language that suits

you best and get yourself familiar with the word of God. Hallelujah. Amen.

When you kickstart off your journey with God, you don't

need to worry your head so much about, I need

a concordance first. They say concordance. They say Bible, dictionary,

and all that. Read the Word. Read the text. Hallelujah.

But make sure you are born again because you are

not going to go to school on your own. It

is the school of the Spirit. And the headmaster, like

we say, the class teacher, And everything is the Holy

Spirit of God. He will give you understanding. Hallelujah. Amen.

It's all the plain text. God says, do it. That's all. Amen.

You don't need to go and look for another understanding anywhere.

If there's any other understanding than the plain text, the

Holy Spirit will help you. Hallelujah. I'm not by so

saying that now when you get it, because the school

that you are going, that the Holy Spirit plants you in,

it's a congregation. So where we don't understand, the congregation

is going to come in so that we don't, if

you like, walk off into heresy and applying wrong interpretation. Hallelujah.

That's why we say God will plant you in a

Bible-believing church. The text, the plain text. Hallelujah. That's the Logos.

Then the reamer comes in, and the reamer comes from

the whispering of the Holy Spirit of God. That's why

it's essential to do your quiet time, because that is

where you get to discern the voice of God. Amen.

And then the Holy Spirit is the one who is

going to give you the understanding, particularly in the area

of application of the word of God. When you come

to the crossroads in life, should I turn to the

left or to the right? Should I even marry this person?

I've been waiting for marriage. Nobody is coming. But this

brother has come. He doesn't go to church, but he's

a nice person. What should I do? I'm not going

to go to my... You don't need to come to

your pastor. You know already what I'll say. Hallelujah. Amen.

So that's why you don't come. Me, I don't have

a problem. Don't come to me. You know what I'll

say already. But the Holy Ghost... The Holy Ghost. I

won't be there. But the Holy Ghost will be there.

You come and make all the arguments like the arguments

they make. Oh, my mother loves him. You should see

the way my mother smiles when he comes home. And

I'm listening. I'm shaking my head. Praise the Lord. I

am glad you are going to get married. But I'll

be glad. I'll be more joyful if the marriage is

going to succeed. And it's going to bring joy to you.

And you are not just going to go through the

face and the motion. But it will be an enjoyable experience.

I don't know the man. I may not know him.

Nobody may know him. But the Holy Ghost, he knows

all men. So the rumor will start ringing in your heart,

in your heart. Immediately, the person comes and leaves, and

then deposits the pizza, and then the biscuits, and then,

you know, the wine and leaves, and then you are

about to sit down to eat. Oh, what an amazing

man God is bringing to me. Then your heart starts beating.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Then you sense the Holy Spirit of God stifling and

holding on your jaw. Then you hear the screaming within

your soul, the incestuous voice of God. No! That's the rumor.

The pastor will not be there. Nobody will be there.

And then in your bed alone, and then he will

wake you up. And you can't sleep. You are listless.

And then what is it? And you are here. Hey,

this guy. Sometimes he won't even give you a dream.

He will speak to you in a dream. A sister

was telling me her story. It says in the dream,

when she was going, she was marching. Everybody was saying, no, no, no, no.

She said, no, no, no. I like him. I like him.

I'll marry him. He's a nice guy. He will change.

He will change. I'll be able to change him. The

way he loves me and he listens to me, I'll

change him. And then she says something. She says that

you know something. She says that in the dream, on

the wedding day, the cake, the cake was beautifully raised there.

And the rings. And then something in the dream, somebody,

a hand just... He kicked the cake away, and the

cake just splattered on the floor. Rinsed in all the things.

He said, that is when I knew that I should have.

I didn't have any more energy and courage to say no.

That's the voice of the Spirit. Hallelujah. So God has

already said it. In the Logos, He has said it.

Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, period. Then all the

other arguments will come. The voice of the Spirit. I

don't know. I wish that it would work well for you. Hallelujah.

Because we want, just like, we want everybody to get married.

But if you get married and have a very happy

and joyful or joyous marriage, But the Lord who knows

all hearts. Hallelujah. Every commandment. Every commandment. Every commandment. So

you want to marry, you go and consult the commandment.

What does God say about people who have not yielded

the throne of their lives to Jesus Christ? No matter

how nice they are. Can I go ahead? The logos

is there. But you ignore it. But the rhema, you

can't run away from the rhema. Because it's the voice

of God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. He says the whole commandment.

And as we are seeing, the logos and the remarks.

From Genesis to Revelation is the entire law. Hallelujah. From

Genesis to Revelation, the truths that spells out the principles

of the word of God. But remember, we are in

a new dispensation. But we can learn a lot of

the truths, particularly when it comes to the identity of God.

Because in the Old Testament, even though in the New Testament,

Because in the New Testament, he says that in Jesus Christ,

God gave a fuller revelation of himself. That's why the

New Testament is exciting. As we read through the word

of God, through the gospels, and behold Jesus living amongst men.

And like theologians will say, in the New Testament, the

Old Testament is what is revealed. Hallelujah. Whilst in the

Old Testament, the New Testament is concealed. So we see God.

That's why you must read. You'll be able to come,

if you like, be confronted with the identity of God,

his purpose for creation, and the destiny of our creation.

And more particularly, his covenant relationship with his creation, especially

man is our creature. Amen. Let me take that again.

As we come and begin to read and study the

word of God, the whole commandment, the commandment spells out

The identity of God, his purpose for creation, the destiny

of our creation, and more particularly, his covenant relationship with

his creation, especially man, his star creature. Hallelujah. Amen. God

has a purpose. And in the word, you and I

are going to see that we are stewards. God, and

those are the foundational stones that Moses seeks to to

lay when he says, in the beginning, God. God, he

was the one who created the heavens and the earth

and everything that is in it. The Psalmist says, Psalm 24,

Psalms 24:1

verse 1 is all, the earth is the lost, the

fullness thereof, and all, all them that dwell therein. So

when Jesus is saying that, no, don't go and pursue

Mammon at the exclusion of God, in a way, he's

saying that if you, like I keep on saying, Keep

on teaching. If you come to me, you have the wealth.

You will have the wealth. Besides that, he has said it.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

All these things shall be added unto it. And later on,

as we go down, as we said, God had an

oath to it to make it doubly sure and assurance

to us that God will not go back on his word. Hallelujah.

He has blessed us. Why? Because he's a blessed God

and he can bless us. Hallelujah. Amen. But then as

we are saying, knowing the word is critical to having

a healthy relationship with God. That's why you must go

to school. That's why you must do your quiet time

at the expense of whatever. 30 minutes every morning, you

will get it. You shave it off. Amen. Shave it off.

Cut off your sleep. Do everything to be able to

maintain it. Hallelujah. Amen. Because it's going to help you

develop a very healthy relationship with God. There are too

many of us who have unhealthy relationships with God. Too

many people in church. Hallelujah. And too many, because you see,

when you have a healthy relationship with God, you can't

approach him. So you find out that you are standing

too far. But the word says what? Draw nigh to God.

And he will draw nigh to us. Hallelujah. Amen. God

wants us to draw close to him. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So

that he can also draw close to us. So that

all the rich promises in the word, he can do

it to us. He created this world. And the first

thing that he did, and the Bible will say that,

like David sings about in Psalm 8, what is man

that you are so mindful of him? Even though you

created him a little older than the angels, you have

special affection and attention on man. God didn't entrust this

world into the hands of angels, but to man, telling

us about the mindset when it comes to man. Hallelujah. Amen.

And we're going to be able to, we need to

be familiar with these truths so that when the spirit

of Mammon is beckoning and calling, you know how to

resist him. It is God's to bestow. He's the benefactor.

We are beneficiaries. So you read the first and last one.

I say every one of us, you must at least,

the first three chapters of the book of Genesis, you

should know it. What happened? How did we start off

with God? And what happened? And what has God promised

to do to help us in our struggles? Hallelujah. Amen.

Through the word of God, the whole commandment, as we

are saying and arguing, It's very, very important. Hallelujah. Amen.

And the good thing for us now is that if

you are just thinking about the whole commandment and your

mind just goes back to Genesis all the way to Revelations.

How many books? 66 books. How am I going to

be able to read them and wrap my mind around

all of them? Hallelujah. Jesus, that's what. He summarizes it

for us. He said they hang on two precepts or principles.

Love God with all your heart, all your soul, all

your mind, all your strength, and love man. That's it.

That's it. Pastor, if I begin to love God and

love man, I'm not saying it's Jesus who said it.

And you know something? The good thing is that that

is also the reason why he seals us with his

Holy Spirit. Amen. Like I said, the Holy Spirit is

going to help us. in our understanding, appreciation of the logos.

And he will be there around to help us, to

encourage us, and to cheer us up, to apply the

rima in our lives. When it comes to practical application

of the word, God doesn't leave us to do it alone.

The Holy Spirit will help us. He will give us

the boldness and the courage to resist evil, to say no. Hallelujah. Amen.

So as I say, how are we going to be

able to do that He will teach us. He will

guide us. He will love us enough to help us

love him back and have enough left over to love

our fellow man. Say amen to that. You say you

can't love. God will teach you how to love. We

don't know how to love, but he will teach us

how to love him. Amen. There are simple things, though.

Just come to church. Just find yourself useful in the

house of God. And then before you realize, the joy

of the Lord, it begins to stir up in your

heart and in your spirit. And then it gives you

energy and strength. But if the foundational stones, you are

not laying it. And every time, you are standing far

away from God. And God has given the principles, the steps.

And you say, you won't do it. You are not

going to enjoy it. And then before we realize, oh, okay, then...

In place of the pursuit of God, let me go

and pursue money. And then before you realize, God has

become so distant away from you. Hallelujah. Amen. Tell someone

and say, God created it all. Hallelujah. Amen.

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